Louisville’s Super-Polluting Chemical Plant Emits Not One, But Two Potent Greenhouse Gases

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky—The Chemours Louisville Works emits a chemical feedstock and a separate gas byproduct that do more damage to the climate than 750,000 passenger vehicles, and far more than the Environmental Protection Agency’s main industrial greenhouse gas inventory indicates.  Chemours’ most harmful climate super-pollutant is the byproduct, hydrofluorocarbon-23 (HFC-23), a potent greenhouse gas that produces … Continue reading Louisville’s Super-Polluting Chemical Plant Emits Not One, But Two Potent Greenhouse Gases